Log Cabin Republicans won’t endorse Trump due to anti-LGBT advisers

Donald Trump at a rally in in Ambridge, PA, October 10, 2016. Screenshot, YouTube

The Log Cabin Republicans announced on Saturday that they are not endorsing Donald Trump for president.

While they praised Trump as “perhaps the most pro-LGBT presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party” for what they call his “unprecedented overtures to the ‘LGBTQ community,'” they signaled concern over who he was surrounding himself with, as well as his support of a discriminatory piece of legislation.

“As Mr. Trump spoke positively about the LGBT community in the United States, he concurrently surrounded himself with senior advisers with a record of opposing LGBT equality, and committed himself to supporting legislation such as the so-called ‘First Amendment Defense Act’ that Log Cabin Republicans opposes,” a statement reads.

The Log Cabin Republicans also criticized the Republican Party platform for containing language opposing same-sex marriage, preventing trans people from using the bathrooms matching their gender identity, and supporting conversion therapy.

“Should Mr. Trump become our nation’s next President, Log Cabin Republicans welcomes the opportunity to work with his administration to ensure the advances in LGBT freedom we have fought for and secured will continue,” the statement continues.

“Log Cabin Republicans will spend the remainder of the 2016 election cycle committed to preserving and growing GOP majorities in the United States Senate and House of Representatives,” it concludes.